Panel 1: Roman roads

Speaker(s): 
Cornelis van Tilburg (University of Leiden), David Newsome (University of Birmingham) Francesco Trifiló (University of Kent) and Ray Laurence (University of Kent)
Date: 
25 November 2010

Cornelis van Tilburg (University of Leiden) City gates, traffic congestion and the role of local government towards quality of life

David Newsome (University of Birmingham) The semantics of space: regulating traffic congestion in the roman city

Francesco Trifiló (University of Kent) Traffic, congestion and the creation of public space in cities of the Roman Empire: the archaeology of the platea

Ray Laurence (University of Kent) The Construction of a Congested Rome: Historiography and the Visual Imagination

Discussion